From Chicago Second City Police Blog:
“A little bird that was in the know told us that the reason the report was so poorly done is the fact that the top muckrakers at the DOJ blew through their travel budget in the first six months of the investigation leaving the remaining six months thinly staffed here in Chiraq. Also, there are no dates in the report because all of the incidents investigated were conveniently from pre- 2011, before the nine digit midget was elected so as to not tarnish his little knob.”
“From what I understand SCC by the coppers who hosted the ride along’s is : the DOJ auditors were all civilians with attorney backgrounds. Not a single one of them had ever been employed as a law enforcement member. That in of itself is suspect to a high degree of bias. How could they ever recognize or accurately evaluate our police process given the community we deal with from a practice standpoint. They see youths exercising their constitutional right to assemble freely on street corners blind to the inclement weather. We see shit heads up to no good serving narcotics and becoming targets for other dope boys who want those corners. You don’t send a baker to evaluate the work of an electrician. It just won’t make sense. “
“On The eighth page of this report it states that CPD uses force including deadly force that is unreasonable. Doj claims to know this because they said so... There is no proof what so ever to back up this statement. As an academic I find their proof priceless “in consaltation with several active law enforcement experts “ who are never named,credentials are never stated,and the number of unnamed experts is never stated just several so I am guessing three. Its apparent from this report is that it was authored by a group of simpletons. I guess that getting a JD isn’t what it use to be. I am truly embarrassed for the schools that gave the authors of this report a JD. “
https://secondcitycop.blogspot.com/
For those that don’t know:
“Nine digit midget” is one of many nick names given to Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel.
“Rahm Emanuel has his fingerprints on a lot of work done in the White House, with one notable exception.
President Obama’s Chief of Staff famously sliced off part of his right middle finger while working at an Arby’s. The finger ended up in a lot of punchlines, even Emanuel joking during a George Washington University commencement address, “Of all the fingers to lose! I could not express myself for months. I had to learn to talk with my left hand.”
Here is the data that you will never find in any Justice Department civil rights report. In 2014, a thoroughly representative year, blacks made up 79 percent of all known non-fatal shooting suspects in Chicago, 85 percent of all known robbery suspects, and 77 percent of all known murder suspects, according to police department records. Whites were 1 percent of known non-fatal shooting suspects in 2014, 2.5 percent of known robbery suspects, and 5 percent of known murder suspects, the latter category being composed almost exclusively of domestic violence incidents. Whites are virtually absent from the population of violent street criminals, which is the population against which police force is most likely to be used. There is no evidence, in other words, that the use of force is racially biased.
The DOJ report argues at length that the only way to ensure necessary reforms of this blackguard department is via a court-enforced consent decree backed up by “an independent monitoring team . . . of policing and other experts.” The Obama administration is clearly nervous that the incoming administration of President-elect Donald Trump will be less enthusiastic about saddling financially struggling police departments with tens of millions of dollars in compliance costs in the service of statistically innumerate consent decrees. Simply paying a federal monitor and his team will likely cost Chicago taxpayers dearly. The LAPD spent about $40 million trying to comply with its consent decree in its first year in 2000 and $50 million a year for several years thereafter, for a total of about $300 million over 12 years, estimated Los Angeles’s chief legislative analyst in 2015.
One of the first things that the Trump Justice Department should do is figure out how to lighten the burden of existing consent decrees on law enforcement agencies; next, it should decide whether to pull the plug on those decrees that have not yet been finalized, as in Chicago. Simply compiling the paperwork demanded by the Justice Department investigators required the full-time labor of a Chicago sergeant and five officers. Much more manpower would have to be ripped away from crime-fighting in order to feed the insatiable appetite of a federal monitor for endless reports. And what would the federal monitor use as his benchmark for constitutional policing anyway, since DOJ never revealed its standard for finding the CPD a constitutional reprobate?
Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel has said that he intends to sign a consent decree putting the CPD under federal management; Emanuel undoubtedly calculates that aligning himself with the expiring Obama Justice Department serves his future political career. If current CPD superintendent Eddie Johnson isn’t willing to oppose this costly and unnecessary burden, the best hope for the thousands of law-abiding residents of Chicago’s high-crime areas is a change in both tone and policy from the White House.
That’s a blog that I check weekly. Very interesting perspectives on it.